The chase for documented fact is indeed so interesting, exasperating, diverting and absorbing. Just one little phrase sparks an A Ha moment and another alley - blind or revealing - to chase down. I now know, (after many emails and phone calls and answers from efficient, thoughtful and kind people in schools and South Australian government records), which schools he didn't go to. Based on those facts and the deductions we have made from the geography of his youth and close association with the Church of England I have placed him at St Paul's day school in Port Adelaide to begin, then to Pulteney Grammar School for his middle and senior school years.
Visit to Adelaide will include time with the PGS archivist to find real school events to weave into Ridley's story. St Paul's gets quite a few mentions in newspapers - Trove is a treasure for collecting them.
